A Quote by William Strunk, Jr.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
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You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.
I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.
Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.
Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
In all true faith there is complete committal to God.
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.
Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.
A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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